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Tornado Watches in Iowa, 1997
14 tornado watches in 1997. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- July7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 18, 19972 tornado watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Johnson, Lee and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk and 57 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Scott | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 48 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dubuque | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Dallas, Fremont and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 45 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Polk County6
- Story County6
- Humboldt County6
- Kossuth County6
- Palo Alto County6
- Adair County5
- Adams County5
- Allamakee County5
- Boone County5
- Cerro Gordo County5
- Chickasaw County5
- Dallas County5
- Fayette County5
- Franklin County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardin County5
- Howard County5
- Madison County5
- Winneshiek County5
- Worth County5
- Calhoun County5
- Hancock County5
- Pocahontas County5
- Sac County5
- Webster County5
- Emmet County5
- Cedar County4
- Clinton County4
- Scott County4
- Bremer County4
- Butler County4
- Clarke County4
- Clayton County4
- Decatur County4
- Floyd County4
- Lucas County4
- Marshall County4
- Mitchell County4
- Ringgold County4
- Tama County4
59 more counties
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Warren County4
- Wayne County4
- Carroll County4
- Greene County4
- Montgomery County4
- Page County4
- Winnebago County4
- Wright County4
- Buena Vista County4
- Cherokee County4
- Clay County4
- Dickinson County4
- Ida County4
- Lyon County4
- O'Brien County4
- Osceola County4
- Plymouth County4
- Sioux County4
- Woodbury County4
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Johnson County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Muscatine County3
- Washington County3
- Benton County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Dubuque County3
- Grundy County3
- Jackson County3
- Jasper County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Marion County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Audubon County3
- Cass County3
- Fremont County3
- Guthrie County3
- Mills County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Crawford County3
- Monona County3
- Appanoose County2
- Buchanan County2
- Davis County2
- Delaware County2
- Iowa County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Mahaska County2
- Monroe County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Harrison County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.